Archive for October, 2009

Startup Saturday at Bangalore ­- October Edition

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Theme – Online Retail

Startup Saturday is an initiative by Headstart to provide entrepreneurs in each city with a monthly community driven forum that is structured in agenda but open in discussions. A Startup Saturday provides a forum for entrepreneurs to discuss, present, network and learn from peers, prospective customers, adopters, partners and investors.

The fundamental idea is to have all parts of the innovation ecosystem interact with each other with high frequency and through rich conversation. We strongly believe that this would lead to faster evolution of the entire ecosystem.

Time and Venue:­
Saturday – 10th October, 2009 10:00 hrs – 13:00 hrs
Venue: NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore

Agenda:
Demo 1:  FlipKart.com
Demo 2:  Picsquare.com
Lightning Pitches:
Panel Discussion “Opportunities & Challenges in Online Retail”
o  Vitheeswaran from Indiaplaza.in
o  Vijay from WisdomTap
o Vijay from Infibeam.com
Snacks and Networking.

Visit http://network.headstart.in/projects/startup-saturday-bangalore/project-home or http://headstart.in/ for further details.

Broadband Connectivity: India just manages to beat Egypt & Nigeria

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Even though we are close to touching 400mn mobile subscribers, India’s broadband speed is not at all a story to talk about. In a study conducted on Broadband Quality Speed (BQS), India stood 62nd and has managed to beat Egypt, Kenya, Indonesia and Nigeria.

Overall average broadband quality increased across the globe:

  • Global average download throughput increased by 49% to 4.75 Megabits per second (Mbps)
  • Global average upload throughput increased by 69% to 1.3 Mbps
  • Global average latency decreased by 21% to 170 milliseconds
  • South Korea, Japan and HK top the list, followed by Sweden, Switzerland and Netherlands (source).

Complete post here.